For those of you looking for a job, or wandering what we do here or simply stalking me, I decided it would be fun to give everyone a glimpse into a typical day at BLASToutdoors (and for our midwestern readers, a little taste of San Francisco).
One of the first emails I opened was from the Fox & Friends morning show requesting every product highlighted in a "Camping Essentials" pitch I sent out. My hook was "gear that won't break your back- or the bank" and boy did those news stations eat it up! Aside from Fox & Friends, I got product and information requests from six other stations interested in putting together a camping feature. Not bad for a mornings work!
We are currently hiring another account representative and it's always nice to get the surge of resumes and cover letters that never fail to follow our Craigslist postings. Sometimes it's funny too. Yesterday was no exception, in fact we got two exceptionally funny coverletters. I'm not sure if statements about making yourself stand out are urgently drilled into college kids' heads at PRSA or during meetings with advisors, or if kids in San Francisco are just uber creative (read: too creative), but we received two cover letters worth noting. One began by stating how lazy he was and went on to mention his meth addiction (?). Yup, got our attention and we laughed all the way to the trashcan. My personal favorite was a letter from a man relating all his travel experiences including his search for Nessie in Ireland. I'm all for bringing him in but sadly, Mendy isn't.
As Jess was busy splashing SkullCandy news all over Transworld Business and Surf, the rest of us got wind of a David Beckham appearance in Union Square- to meet him all we had to do was buy $200 worth of underwear from Macy's! Not sure why, but in the end we were too late to squander our money and had to settle for battling the crowd with the rest of his screaming fans.
Where's David?
Sarah is crazy about an asian-fusion restaurant in the Marina called Betelnut, and after a long, productive day of securing media coverage, Jess, Sarah, Mendy and I rallied for dinner and drinks. It's worth mentioning that Betelnut was awesome! It's small plates so the four of us ordered about eight or nine entrees including scallops resting on coconut rice patties, lettuce wraps (they blew P.F. Chang's out of the water), Malayasian curry, spicy prawns...I'll definitely be going back!
Next we headed to The Bus Stop for a little pool playin'. The Bus Stop, a great little dive bar on Union Street set the scene for a random night. As I was picking out my favorite Heart song on the jukebox (why is it that some songs we only play on jukeboxes?), I noticed my new Ohio State friends that I met Saturday night with Mendy after the North Beach festival. These ladies are crazy and have a knack for playing the worst music on said jukebox- that I recall from Sat.
We even met a tech editor at CIO; a dead giveaway in a blue button down shirt. Anyone else read Valleywag? He was nice enough to give us the scoop on the worst SF tech PR firms! He is looking forward to hearing from our tech PR counterpart, BLASTmedia thus ending his string of bad encounters. What are new friends for?
That's us in a nutshell, meeting people where ever we go, mixing business with pleasure and generally enjoying each other's company. The only thing that could have made Wednesday even better was if I got to touch David Beckham...
The ladies of BLAST- Sarah, Jessica, Katie and Mendy.
Me and the tech editor at CIO (note the blue polo)
Jess and Sarah... couldn't hang with the pool pros!
